Change handle feature

Hurry! Only until the 10th of January, you can change your handle (but only once)! Note that it will be possible to roll back the changes or change the handle again only after a year. Be careful what you wish for.

You can change your handle to the new one which wasn't used before by anybody or which was used by you before. The links to a profile page with old handle would automatically redirect to the actual profile.

This year we have an improvement. If you took part in at least 10 rounds you can request handle of an inactive participant. It means that the participant should have a period of activity on Codeforces of at most 30 days, this period should be in 2012 or earlier. The inactive participant can’t have posted comments, messages and so on. It can’t take part in more than 2 contests. It will be automatically renamed and informed by email. If you can’t change handle to others, it means that some requirement doesn’t meet. Please do not ask me to do something with it. I’m not Santa Claus.

Talking about handles I always reminisce the following story. Once a user wrote me the message: "Please change my handle from I_love_Valya to I_love_Sveta, as I no longer love Valya ..."

New Year's masquerade of colors and ranks

Traditional magical tab has appeared in the profile setting. Happy New Year!

Hey Mike , you too should try some new color other than black(for at least a day). We would love to see your handle in entirely different and unique color. :) My suggestion: combination of all(gray to red)

The last time this profile was opened is GREEN since 15 months ... and I couldn't change my handle to it. Just tell me why I can't ... I've participated in more than 10 contests and that person has an activity before 2012 and he hadn't open his account since 2 years!? MikeMirzayanov

MikeMirzayanov, i would like to change my handle to Gtaumaturgo (change just the case of the first letter) but it says its not possible. Is this behavior intended? It is not a big deal, i just think Gtaumaturgo is prettier.

i don't think he is inactive so that u can grab his handle. Well if u want to go "headquaters" then change ur handle to any single letter and den change to legendary grandmaster and then u will be all black xD

I wish to change my handle to "Whiplash". The person who currently owns it has only participated in 2 contests and has been inactive for years. But I am not being able to do so. Please help. Thanks a lot! MikeMirzayanov

MikeMirzayanov What about disabled Users ? can we get handle of disabled user ? I want to change my handle to moghya for no apparent reason this handle of mine was disabled 2 years back :( and it doesn't have any activity. Please help.

Your performance rating R means you performed like a contestant having rating R. If you became x'th in a contest and someone having rating R had the expected position x'th in that contest, then your performance rating is R for that particular contest.

Hey Mike , you too should try some new color other than black(for at least a day). We would love to see your handle in entirely different and unique color. :) My suggestion: combination of all(gray to red)

is thisis gift? gift is precious :). gift is not a thing that u borrow for only 10 days -_-. plz this gift provide life time. or added a features that when we make ownself legendary and if we don't solve minimum problems on live contest then (-) our rating. -_-.

I have a problem: I want the change the initial of my handle to a capital letter, but when I try to, the magic tool tells me that it has to be a different handle than my current one. Can this be be fixed?

I want to change my handle to "hemakshis". But it was taken. And when I messaged that person with a request to change yours (as he/she did not participate in a single contest). The most funny thing happened. The message that I send to the handle "hemakshis" came to back to me itself! Yeah! Both the handles are registered with the same email and now I can't even access that profile (it says disabled or something) neither I am able to get that handle. Please help MikeMirzayanov! Only two days are left.